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school, King's Meaburn
King's Meaburn School
locality:-   King's Meaburn
civil parish:-   King's Meaburn (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY62252091
1Km square:-   NY6220
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
BSG92.jpg (taken 12.3.2010)  
photograph
BME25.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"This SCHOOL Erected &Endowed by Subscription A.D. 1831" (taken 30.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 16) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Endowed School"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SCHOOL / / / KINGS MEABURN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 422785 / NY6226220907"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School, dated 1831 with later extension to south. Coursed, squared rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roofs; original building has stone chimney to north end and small bellcote to south. Single storey, 4 bays overall. Blocked door in north wall. On west side, the 3 semicircular-headed windows with glazing bars have projecting keystones and an impost band to their stone surrounds; date panel with inscription over central window. Extension has 3-light window with stop-chamfers to mullions and surround. Late C20 flat-roofed addition on east side not included."


photograph
BME24.jpg (taken 30.5.2006)  
photograph
BSG93.jpg  School bell.
(taken 12.3.2010)  

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